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Composite molding presses are often specified around tonnage and platen size first, but those values alone rarely determine whether the system will successfully support the manufacturing process long term.  Part geometry, tooling design, cure requirements, pressure distribution, and thermal control all influence how the press should actually be engineered. In many cases, the press itself becomes part of…

When a new press project starts, one of the most common mistakes is treating the specification like a list of disconnected numbers. A team asks for tonnage, stroke, platen size, and temperature range, but nobody steps back and answers the bigger question first: what does this press actually need to do in production?  That is where…